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The outlook for this year's RV tourism on the Kenai Peninsula depends on where you go and who you talk to. RV parks in the Kenai area are seeing a decline in bookings, while the Seward area seems to be this year's RV mecca.
Debbie Bass and her husband, Jim, own Bing Brown's RV Park and Motel in Sterling. According to Bass, bookings for the RV park are down about 25 percent from last year.
"A lot of people who stay here come every year," she said. "This year they are just not coming."
One factor that Bass attributes the decline to is the poor performance of the stock market.
"I just don't think people have a lot of money and what they do have, they are hanging on to," Bass said.
Add to that the recent war in Iraq, high gas prices and a fear of coming through Canada because of SARS, she said.
Many of the guests at Bing's tend to stay longer than the typical RV traveler, with some of them staying the entire season there.
Bass said RVs usually begin to arrive in the area around May 1. This year, they still had not shown up as of May 15.
"It's gonna be a weird year," she said.
Usually, every place in the Kenai area is booked for the last two weeks in July for the big king salmon run.
"This year we are not even booked for the end of July," Bass said.
Prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Bing Brown's often had a waiting list. Guests would make their reservations for the next year before they left for the summer. However, the trend now is that travelers are waiting to book until shortly before they travel. Bass said reservations for the RV park did not begin to filter in until April.
Bing Brown's is not the only facility feeling the loss.
Matt Marotzke, co-owner of the Edgewater RV Park in Soldotna, also reported a decline in bookings. He said reservations were down nearly 20 percent from the previous year.
"I am still optimistic that it's going to improve," Marotzke said.
The family-owned business includes 12 other RV parks in Washington, Nevada and Ari-zona.
"We do a lot of marketing down there, so I think that helps us," he said.
Parks in the Seward area, however, are singing a different tune. Lynn Hettick, owner of Bear Creek RV Park, said reservations for her park were up 30 percent from this time last year. Business at Bear Creek has increased despite the fact that two new RV parks opened last year and Seward is adding a city-maintained full hook-up park on the waterfront this year.
"We were the only RV park until last year," said Hettick, whose park has been in business for RVs since 1985. Before that, it was a mobile home park.
Hettick said Seward represents a unique situation for the RV travelers. There are more limitations to where people can park in the area.
"We don't have any state park on this side," she said.
"Also, people will park at Fred Meyer (which has since changed), and we don't have that here. People can't just park anywhere."
Stoney Creek RV Park, one of the new facilities to open last year, was built to accommodate construction crews working on the Seward Highway project from Mile 8 to 18.
Last year, it was converted into a public RV park. This is the first year they have advertised the park and, according to the manager, Darlene Emery, the response has been tremendous.
"We are being slammed," she said. "We have caravans coming (from all over)."
Though business may be good this year for the privately owned RV parks, next year may be a different story. According to Hettick, the city's RV park should be on line by the middle of June.
"It's a government entity competing with private companies," Hettick said.
She added that the city plans to charge $17 per night for slips, which undercuts the rest of the businesses in the area. She also added that the city will provide 50-amp electric service.
"Nobody else can afford to do that," she said. "The city can afford to do it because they own the electric company.
"It's unfair competition," she said. "It's gonna hurt us eventually, but not this year."
Christina Sessions is a writer for the Alaska Journal of Commerce.
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Yahoo (s yhoo) plans to bring its popular Yahoo Messenger client to iPhone and Android phones, enabling FaceTime-like video chat conversations across multiple platforms, both mobile and PC. David Katz, Yahoo’s VP of Mobile for the Americas region, shared the news with Reuters, saying the apps are on their way soon to the iPhone (s aapl) and Android (s goog) platforms, pending approval. The apps, which would operate on both 3G and Wi-Fi, would take advantage of new forward-facing cameras on devices like the iPhone 4, HTC EVO and Epic and the upcoming myTouch from T-Mobile.
The competition among mobile video chat providers is heating up. We just wrote about Tango, the latest mobile video chat client that tries to compete against Apple’s FaceTime, Fring and Qik. But a Yahoo Messenger client would offer the prospect of conducting video calls not only between mobile phones but also between mobile and PC-bound users. Yahoo reportedly has 81 million Yahoo Messenger users worldwide.
FaceTime has proven to be a popular feature of the iPhone 4 and a major marketing point for the device. However, the service only works between iPhone 4 — and now iPod touch — devices, and only over Wi-Fi. Tango and Fring have worked to reduce some of those limitations by enabling 3G and cross-platform interoperability, and it seems like users are excited about the prospect of more video chat capabilities on their phone. Tango shot up to No. 3 in the App Store in the U.S. on the free social networking category shortly after launching late last month.
It’s still hard to match the overall ease of use that FaceTime provides, which enjoys the advantage of being built right into iOS. If done well, Yahoo Messenger could be a worthy alternative, because of its reach and the promise of communicating between phone and computer. And it will help Yahoo further position itself in mobile. Skype should also be in the market as well and it’s still surprising they don’t have a mobile video chat product available.
Hopefully, we’ll see the Yahoo apps shortly, although there’s no guarantee Apple is going to play along. The company hasn’t opened up FaceTime to 3G calls, perhaps for fear of overloading AT&T’s (s t) network. While Fring and Tango have been approved, allowing Yahoo video calls on AT&T’s network might give AT&T some pause.
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Team Roster Includes Athletes Who Share a Passion For TriggerPoint Products and Living a Healthy Lifestyle
(Austin, TX – October 9, 2014) – – TriggerPoint™ Performance Therapy has announced the Team TriggerPoint roster for the 2014 – 2015 racing season. The selected athletes span across the United States and demonstrate a passion for healthy living, a commitment to their local endurance sports community and a support and understanding of the TriggerPoint brand and mission. While the team’s official kickoff will not be until early 2015, TriggerPoint looks forward to supporting several athletes as they finish their 2014 racing season, among them, Jocelyn McCauley, their first Ironman World Championship competitor racing this weekend in Kailua-Kona, HI.
The 19 athletes selected for Team TriggerPoint will receive a custom-designed team racing kit and TriggerPoint products and education, in addition to benefits from team partners ISM saddles, Fuel Belt, Road ID, Speedfill and Compex. Team members will support TriggerPoint’s onsite initiatives within each of their markets, such as a major race or retailer event, alongside fulfilling volunteer requirements, such as hosting a community activity around health and wellness
“I am incredibly excited to join Team TriggerPoint,” said selected Team TriggerPoint triathlete, Erin Stephens. “To be on a team with such diverse endurance athletes is really inspiring and supportive, something I’ve never quite experienced before. I look forward to teaching fellow athletes about the tools for self-care which have helped me so much with my own training and racing, and empower these peers to feel better, prevent injuries and most of all, accomplish their athletic goals.”
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Facebook employees will still screen trending topics for newsworthiness, the company notes.
Samsung will discontinue the streaming service to instead focus on partnerships with other music streaming companies.
Although the freezing bug hasn't been addressed yet, You can revert to an earlier build of Windows 10 while Microsoft works on a fix.
Nobody quite knows what it's for (yet), but according to Android Police, it can run on just about any kind of device.
The Apple Watch saw a sharp year-over-year drop in sales, according to IDC estimates, but it still leads in overall smartwatch market share.
Sources tell Android Police that the company may ditch its Android variant and instead focus on apps following a round of layoffs.
According to SurveyMonkey, Pokémon Go remains incredibly popular in the US, but is already beginning to decline.
Terms and conditions apply, but if the company's stores can't perform a same-day upgrade on your Windows 10-compatible PC, it'll give you a new Dell notebook.
A massive throng of Pokémon Go players appeared in Central Park to catch a rare Vaporeon. Hilarity ensues.
Facebook will allow violent or graphic video streams that document live, newsworthy events, the company announced Friday
According to Polygon, you'll be able to play select games across Xbox One and Windows 10 devices starting September 13.
Although there are a few limitations, you can now purchase a wide variety of products from Amazon by merely talking to Amazon's virtual assistant.
What's next for Microsoft's hardware efforts? If recent reports are to believed, it looks like an all-in-one desktop is on the way,
The lawsuit is part of an effort by the livestreaming site to prevent video creators from gaming the system and artificially inflating their view counts.
Citrix's remote access service got hit by a "sophisticated" attack over the weekend, prompting password resets for all GoToMyPC users.
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Pakistan and Italy Talk About Improving Trade Relations.
On Monday, Italian Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese met with Caretaker Federal Minister for Commerce, Industries, and Production Dr. Gohar Ejaz.
Pakistan and Italy Talk About Improving Trade Relations. The high-level meeting focused on finding new ways to strengthen commercial connections between Italy and Pakistan. During the meeting, the minister emphasized the need to develop economic cooperation between the two countries, emphasizing the need to open new commercial opportunities.
Both parties agreed on the possibility of collaboration in a variety of industries, with a focus on knowledge transfer and the steel industry.
Pakistan saw Italy as an important nation for trade and commercial connections, citing the possibility of cooperation in a variety of fields.
He emphasized that Italy possessed excellent technology and machinery, therefore close collaboration was advantageous to Pakistan and might assist in boosting its economy.
He said that current commerce between Italy and Pakistan was far smaller and did not reflect both nations’ genuine trade potential.
Neccia emphasized the opening of a commerce division at the Italian Embassy and expressed hope that it will strengthen bilateral connections.
According to him, the Iran-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry contributed favorably to commerce, which led to the establishment of the Pakistan-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry to promote networking and economic links between the private sectors of both nations.
The minister presented his idea for greatly increasing the amount of commerce between Italy and Pakistan in order to achieve mutual economic progress. Ambassador Ferrarese praised the minister’s vision and commitment to enhancing bilateral relations.


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Intel is about to deliver the opening salvo in a wave of multicore processors that could ultimately lead to chips with scores of cores.
The chip maker will begin the rollout of its Core Microarchitecture—new chip circuitry that emphasizes power efficiency—June 26 with the arrival of the dual-core “Woodcrest” Xeon 5100-series server chip. But Intel researchers said June 15 that they have already seen results with projects associated with their Tera-scale Computing effort to explore processors containing tens or even hundreds of cores.
Intel has already implied that it is aiming for processors with more than 10 processor cores by the end of the decade. However, Tera-scale chips would look and act differently. They would be built from numerous relatively simple general-purpose IA (Intel Architecture) x86 processor cores—with the potential to include specialized cores for some jobs—to boost performance by dividing up jobs and running them in parallel.
Tera-scale chips would use semiconductor design laws, which state that smaller, slower cores tend to use less power, to meet businesses needs for performance, while acknowledging concerns about matters like server power consumption.
“Theres this advantage to simplifying the individual [processor] core, accepting the reduction in single-thread performance, while positioning yourself—because of the power reduction—to put more cores on the die,” said Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner in Hillsboro, Ore. “Thats the energy-efficiency proposition of Tera-scale. Less is more, actually, in the case of a Tera-scale machine because the underlying core efficiency is better than the cores weve been introducing this year.”
Tera-scale chips would be particularly good for jobs requiring the processing of large amounts of data, such as computer visualization or using gestures to control a computer. But extracting the true performance potential of such a new approach wont be possible without improving chip technologies, including boosting on-board memory caches, creating high-speed interconnects for distributing data and building more efficient clock timing systems. Nor will it be successful without getting software developers, many of whom are just now starting to tackle the move from single-thread applications to multithreaded applications, on board, Intel executives said.
“Every time you increase the number of threads, youre putting greater burden on the programmers to write the applications … to actually harness all that available parallelism,” Rattner said.
The Tera-scale approach is a radical change from Intels Xeon 5100, which uses two complex processor cores. But one of the driving forces behind the Tera-scale research is the fact that chip transistor counts, already in the billions, will continue to double over time. Intel chips will approach 32 billion transistors by the end of the decade, researchers said.
Larger numbers of smaller transistors offer Intel the choice of packing numerous cores on a chip without increasing its area and affecting manufacturing yields.
Thus far, Intel and others have used the extra transistors to create more complex chips with larger on-board memory caches. Shifting toward many simple cores—trading two Woodcrest cores for tens of 386-style cores—would greatly increase a chips parallel processing abilities and thus offer more performance, according to analysts.
“The bigger question is, How do you take advantage of such a system?” said Dean McCarron, principal analyst with Mercury Research, in Cave Creek, Ariz. “Not everything lends itself to [many threads]. But, that said, everybody seems to be in agreement that this is the path were pretty much forced to go down.”
Programming for Tera-scale chips will require a completely different approach that uses many different threads simultaneously. Its something only a few programmers currently are familiar with, said Steve Pawlowski, CTO for Intels Digital Enterprise Group, in Hillsboro.
So Intel is getting to work. In some cases, the company is working directly with large software makers. Elsewhere, its Software Products Group is offering tools to assist programmers with multithreading, said James Reinders, director of marketing and business development for the companys Developer Products Division, also in Hillsboro.
The tools, including compilers, performance libraries, tuners and thread checkers, aim to address such challenges as scalability, or how to make an application run faster on more than one core; correctness, or eliminating bugs; and ease of development.
“Were definitely seeing movement in attitudes of developers” toward multithreaded applications, Reinders said. “Over the next five years, I think well see most developers take an interest in understanding parallelism more.”
At least one company, MainConcept, a maker of video codecs, has already adopted multicore, said CEO Markus Monig in Aachen, Germany.
MainConcept found that optimizing for dual-core chips using Intels tools gave it a performance edge. Codecs run about “1.8 times faster on dual-core machines because you can actually cut the picture into slices and feed them to the separate processors,” Monig said. “For us, the shift to multicore development has been pretty dramatic.”
He predicted others will follow suit. “Companies like us [that] are driven to be competitive … will have to,” Monig said. “If your codec isnt fast, nobody will buy it. There can be lots of benefit [for] applications which take a lot of CPU power.”
Yet despite extensive backing inside Intels Corporate Technology Group—about 80 projects and 40 percent of the groups researchers are involved in Tera-scale research in some manner—and the existence of several niche markets that could take advantage of such technology today, Tera-scale may never fully come to light. After all, the research must be adopted by Intels product groups before it can come to market. Those groups might decide to keep going with current plans or use some other approach to many-core architectures.
However, “itll definitely affect the way products look later in the decade and early into the next,” Rattner said.


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SAO PAULO -(MarketWatch)- Brazil's largest sugar and ethanol group, Cosan Industria e Comercio SA (CSAN3.BR), said Friday it has bought the lubricants business of Exxon Mobil Corp.
The transaction represents an extension of Cosan's 2008 acquisition of nearly all Exxon Mobil's distribution and sales assets in Brazil. The companies didn't disclose the value of the transaction.
Cosan will continue producing Mobil brand lubricants at its Rio de Janeiro plant. The deal unveiled Friday will allow it to become the brand's exclusive distributor in the three additional countries and increase overall lubricant sales by roughly 5% a year, the firm said.
In the April-to-June quarter, Cosan's lubricant sales amounted to 230.1 million Brazilian reais ($129.3 million), up 14% from a year earlier.
"These three countries--Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay--logistically it makes a lot of sense for them to be served from Brazil since they don't have local production," Nelson Gomes, head of Cosan Lubricants, said in a phone interview. "We're making an acquisition in additional territory where we won't have to make investments in fixed assets."
Gomes said Cosan should begin operating in the three countries by the end of this year.


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There is a lot of buzz around eco-friendly passenger cars, however some truck manufacturers have also decided to go greener. Many companies are interested in hybrid and all-electric vehicles, but the price of the vehicles may be discouraging. That is why the U.S. government decided to help the industry develop.
US Government Grant
In March 2009 President Obama announced Transportation Electrification Initiative worth $2.4 billion. The money will go to support companies manufacturing advanced batteries and related drive components as well as for demonstration and deployment projects. The general aim is to accelerate and facilitate the market introduction of advanced electric drive and plug-in hybrid vehicles of all kinds.
Examples of Companies Testing Greener Trucks
Some examples of companies that that want to test the greener trucks include: UPS, Coca-Cola, AT&T or FedEx.
- UPS recently ordered 200 hybrid trucks. Thanks to the new vehicles in their fleet, the company aims to decrease fuel consumption by over 170,000 gallons a year which means a reduction of CO2 emissions by 1,786 metric tons. The vehicles purchased by UPS use a Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation body and a hybrid power system from Eaton Corporation. The trucks are equipped with diesel engines combined with lithium ion battery packs and regenerative braking system.
- AT&T has purchased all-electric Ford Transit Connect vans. The lithium ion batteries enable the vehicles to go up to 80 miles (129 km) on a single charge and at a top speed of 75 miles per hour (121 km/h). The van will be officially available in the second half of 2010.
- FedEx has also invested in a greener fleet. This year they have started testing an all-electric truck called eStar. It is a medium-duty vehicle with a range of 100 miles, fully rechargeable in 6 to 8 hours. A huge advantage of eStar is that the battery is a cassette-type one and can be changed in 20 minutes, which enables the truck to be used 24/7 if needed. FedEx claims that the operating cost of eStar compared to a standard truck is 30% lower. Will it be enough to cover the extra purchase price?
For the time being the governmental grants will help the green truck industry develop. Hopefully, in the near future the manufacturers will profit from economies of scale, and their vehicles will be attractive to buyers not only due to environmental concerns.


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Foreo has appointed Filip Sedic as chief executive officer, the company announced.
Sedic currently serves as chairman of the board, and is the primary inventor of Foreo’s product line, including its Luna cleansing devices and UFO smart mask treatment.
He will assume the role immediately, succeeding Paul Peros, who stepped down from the position.
“We would like to thank Paul Peros for the contribution he has made to the growth of Foreo from its beginning until to now,” said Sedic. “Through our five-year journey, the company has developed into a strong organization, and is now ready to face up to an exciting new chapter in its history.”


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A collaborative effort by the Central West region's wedding planners and photographers is helping keep at least one Dubbo business afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amy and Simon Allen, the couple behind Simon and Amy Creative Co. have seen business take a sharp hit in recent months due to the many event cancellations as a result of COVID-19.
Despite the hardship however, the pair have seen work begin to return and are eager to show off the resilience of the Central West's wedding industry, with their company recently appearing in a cross-region video saluting the efforts of the area's businesses.
Amy Allen says the video was a very positive joint effort.
"I think the main thing we wanted to do with the video was remind people that when everything is back to normal, we're still here, we're still operating," Mrs Allen said.
"It was a boost for the wedding industry in the Central West, get through and make sure we're still going strong."
"We're still out here helping people plan out their weddings, even if that is in 2021, people are still getting ready and we're still there for them."
At the moment, their business hasn't seen much in the way of what they would normally expect, but easing restrictions have allowed them to expand at a very opportune time.
"Traditional, big weddings aren't happening at the moment, but we've been lucky enough to be part of a few elopements already, now we can have a few more guests at each event, which is nice, hopefully that trend will continue and we can do proper weddings," Mrs Allen said.
"Things are nice right now, it's been really good being able to shoot outdoors and we've been taking photos of a lot of families which is really, really nice, the kids are so excited to be back out and about."
Though the pickup in business is welcome, it's not without difficulty, as wedding planners and photographers across the Central West now have to juggle rescheduled events alongside weddings already planned for 2021.
"We've been giving our current couples priority and encouraging people who are getting married next year to get in sooner rather than later," Mrs Allen said.
"This is the perfect time to start planning and I think now is a really important time to be buying and supporting local."


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Plans of initiating an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong or in some of the other overseas markets where the denominated shares would be valued in U.S. dollar was recently shared with the media by the co-CEO of Bitmain Technologies which is the biggest cryptocurrency mining in the world.
This IPO would be a means of cashing out for some of the early investors in the company which includes the likes of Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital.
According to a report published in the Fortune online magazine, an email from a person who is close to the company had been obtained by ‘Term Sheet’. That email contains a glimpse of the financial status of the company and the latest financial figures of the company that would probably be used while filing for the planned IPO.
Bitmain had reportedly in early June raised about $400 million in a funding round and the company is still in the process of raising more cash after that funding round.
The additional funding that the company is looking to raise would take the market valuation of the company to about $14 billion which means that a 10 to 11times earnings multiple would be available with the company says the reported email. The anticipated new valuation of the company would be a 16.6 per cent increase compared to the most recent reported valuation of the company which was at $12 billion.
The reported internal email available with the media quotes an audit of the company’s business done by KPMG and states that about $1,2 billion in net profits was generated by the company in 2017 while it also generated an approximate of 50 per cent in net margins for the same year.
It has further been reported that in the first quarter of 2018, the company had raked in a net profit of about $1.1 billion. The email further states that anything between $2 and $3 billion could be the net profit for the firm for the full year of 2018 according to conservative estimates of experts and analysts.
The email also says that “Bitmain plans to file for an IPO very soon.”
No comments form Bitmain has been made available to the media so far.
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Hong Kong-based remittance service Bitspark has closed an undisclosed funding round from RGAx.
Bitspark is a cryptocurrency brokerage service for money transfer operators across the globe. The end-to-end blockchain remittance platform is predominately used in seven countries with more than 100,000 cash distribution points including banks, convenience stores and mobile money payments.
RGAx is the innovation accelerator of Reinsurance Group of America, and has $3.3trn in life reinsurance in force.
The partnership will help mutual ambitions of providing financial protection to undeserved populations.
With the investment, Bitspark will look to boost its presence around the world, primarily the US and Asia Pacific regions. The company will also soon be launching new updates to the platform.
RGAx CEO Dennis Barnes said, “At RGAx we are actively partnering with our existing clients and new innovators, such as Bitspark, to create business opportunities that improve consumer access to financial services. We believe Bitspark’s technology could help reduce friction for the millions of people who use remittance to support their families and friends abroad.”
The largest chunk of funding in the Hong Kong FinTech sector since 2014 has gone to the payments and remittance companies, with it accounting for 23 per cent of the activity. The country’s biggest deal in payments sector was POS developer ibox mPOS, which raised $1.3m in 2015.
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Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees – Which Do You Prefer?
With the Christmas holiday season upon us, it's time to start thinking about where you're going to get your tree this year. Many Americans buy artificial (i.e. fake) trees, but there are significant advantages
to both the environment and the economy to buy a real tree in our own area.
Bill Ulfelder, New York director of The Nature Conservancy, says that fresh Christmas trees provide major environmental benefits, including putting oxygen into the air. And they're good for wildlife mammals, birds, and insects too.
On the other hand, he says most artificial trees are made overseas, and are only used for about five or six years before being thrown out. Nonetheless, Ulfelder says twice as many Americans still buy artificial trees, which typically are imported from Asia.
The Nature Conservancy also notes that buying a real tree is a benefit to the U.S. economy. Producing Christmas trees is a billion dollar industry that provides thousands of jobs at more than 12,000 tree farms nationwide. In our state, tree farms are located on Long Island, in the Hudson Valley, and here in upstate New York.
More information about buying reals trees can be found in The Nature Conservancy's New York Christmas Tree Shopping Guide.


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Supermarkets imposing ridiculous and wholly unnecessary cosmetic standards are known to be one of the main causes of perfectly edible food going to waste at a farm level.
In a recent Telegraph article exploring the habits of those who seek out discounted food in supermarkets, and the financial benefits of doing so, there was a poll asking readers ‘Would you eat food after the ‘Best Before’ date had passed’. The results of which indicated that 16% of 12,000+ participants only ate food on or before this date, with 40% only eating food that was a few days past the date.
We are all conscious on some level of the amount of food we waste – edible or otherwise, within our own home, and aware that there is avoidable food waste generated by supermarkets and the wider, urban-based commercial, catering and hospitality sectors. But what about on the farms?
At retail level alone, it is estimated that over 400,000 tonnes of perfectly edible food go to waste each year. Meanwhile 4 million people in the UK are affected by food poverty and over 500,000 people are reliant on emergency food provision.
Food waste has a huge environmental impact: if we stopped wasting food in the UK it would be the CO2 equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road. Because of this our first aim should be to minimize the amount of food being wasted as much as possible and progress is definitely being made here: from innovative packaging to more intelligent systems for predicting how certain items will sell.
This shoot was intended to capture what goes on after Sian and the volunteers she has helping her – often just Konstantina, have completed their tour of the New Spitalfields Market, collecting food from vendors that would otherwise go to waste.
FoodCycle’s activities are not limited to the volunteer hubs I have been documenting – the organisation also runs a cafe in Bromley by Bow, which I went to visit on a couple of occasions.
The cafe relies on gathering food that would otherwise be wasted from a variety of sources – including New Spitalfields Market, which is collected early on Saturday mornings.
Not being satisfied with the range of images I managed to capture during my first visit to Waitrose Islington, the management team kindly allowed me to come along a second time – to once again capture the handing over of ‘surplus’ food from Waitrose to the FoodCycle LSE volunteers.
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Second demo for Nioh releasing next month
Another Beta Demo is coming at the end of August
KOEI TECMO America has announced a second downloadable demo for the action RPG Nioh.
This Beta Demo will be available via the PlayStation Store from August 23 until September 6, after which point download and play of the demo will be disabled.
Following the Alpha Demo in April, the Beta Demo promises new challenges deeper into the ominous world of Nioh, and in turn, new ways to conquer foes emerge. The long-range hand cannon rifle allows humans and Yokai alike to be taken down, and a selection of Katanas, Spears, Axes and Hammers will provide players with new options to suit their gameplay style. Among the demo’s locales is a new dojo stage which teaches players the basics of the game’s fast-paced combat system. Players will also be able to explore a to-be-announced stage in addition to the Usuki stage featured earlier this year in the Alpha Demo.
Scheduled for launch in 2016, Nioh is in development exclusively for the PS4 system.


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One published in 2015, two new ones this year. Plus last month’s addition to the list:
Douroux is a journalist at Libération, who, according to the jacket, “spent four years tracking down the brilliant hermit. He has scoured [épluché] the archives and flushed out its last secrets.” Fat chance! Still, his book is at 5851 on amazon.fr’s best seller list, the others somewhat lower.
None of these books has been translated into any language other than French, as far as I can tell, and the definitive biography — the one on which the definitive movie will be based — has yet to be written.


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PALO ALTO (AP) - Hewlett-Packard is still scrambling to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices as a slump in its personal computer sales deepens, but the company's cost-cutting measures and focus on more profitable areas of technology appear to be easing the pain.
PALO ALTO (AP) - Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.
DETROIT (AP) - Eminem's song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency in Detroit federal court, saying they appropriated one of the rapper's songs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft thinks it has the one.
NEW YORK (AP) - Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders. That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision and instincts of a 26-year-old entrepreneur who dropped out of high school to pursue his dream of bringing more beauty and creativity to the Internet.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The California Public Utilities Commission has reached a proposed $37 million settlement with Southern California Edison over fallen power lines blamed for starting the October 2007 Malibu Canyon Fire.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, raising new questions Monday about whether the twin reactors will produce electricity again.
Here is an email from Phil: "I think the Social Security disability program is a complete rip off. I know lots of people getting disability checks who don't deserve them. It seems like anyone can get on disability. Simply get a doctor to sign statement saying you are disabled, and the checks start rolling in. What can we do to stop this scam?"
MENLO PARK (AP) - It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering.
NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition under CEO Marissa Mayer, as she tries to attract more traffic and advertising to the Internet company's website.
SAN JOSE (AP) - She's a disheveled woman, upper teeth gone, heavy bags slung over her shoulders as she nervously urges on two friends shoving her overloaded shopping cart up a dirt slope. Maria Esther Salazar has been either homeless, in jail, or squatting at someone else's house for 30 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in the past seven years, a sign that this year's strong hiring trend is likely to continue.
WASHINGTON (AP) - What you study - math and science are a plus - seems to matter more than whether your alma mater is public or private when it comes to finding a high-paying job after college, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Department.
LONDON (AP) - They are rolling symbols of wealth and excess, starting at $263,000 a pop, with many buyers choosing custom options that can easily double the price. And they are more popular than ever before.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - One of the nation's leading gun manufacturers has reached a settlement in a nationwide lawsuit claiming a popular hunting rifle has a defective trigger mechanism that can cause injury and death.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Supreme Court shot down Aereo's business model this week, but that doesn't mean customers' desire for a better TV experience is gone.
NEW YORK (AP) - Ikea's U.S. division is raising the minimum wage for thousands of its retail workers, pegging it to the cost of living in each location, instead of its competition.
NEW YORK (AP) - Nike's fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 5 percent as higher revenue in most geographic regions offset heavy investments in marketing for the World Cup soccer tournament.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street, with banks posting some of the biggest declines.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A new study finds half of households in metropolitan Los Angeles spend at least 30 percent of their income on rent or mortgage payments - the highest rate among U.S. cities.
DETROIT (AP) - A number of analysts are predicting that General Motors' June U.S. sales will underperform the overall auto industry, putting the company in danger of losing market share at a critical time.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some 1 billion people are now using Android devices, Google said as the company kicked off its two-day developer conference Wednesday in San Francisco.
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market inched modestly higher Wednesday, recovering more than half of what it lost the day before, as investors were able to set aside two disappointing economic reports.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - California's credit rating is rebounding, reflecting the relative stability of its state budget.


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Interactive expands custom video content for advertisers seeking deeper
(June 14, 2012) Interactive One, the largest digital media company
serving Black Americans, is rapidly expanding its video content
offerings for marketers seeking more engaging sponsored content
opportunities. In response, advertising partners including personal care
brands Ambi, CoverGirl and Gillette as well as automaker Honda, are
utilizing Interactive One's broad reach in the marketplace for branded
"Our advertising partners see the value of branded web video series and
are leveraging Interactive One's access to the Black consumer," said
Keith Bowen, Chief Revenue Officer, Interactive One. "From mothers and
fashion conscious young women, to music lovers, business professionals
and the politically minded, Interactive One connects daily with various
segments of the Black community in a variety of meaningful ways."
Interactive One's editorial and integrated marketing teams work together
to create content for clients across its suite of sites.
HelloBeautiful.com, the company's fashion, beauty and lifestyle website
for Black women, features a mini-makeover series "5 Minutes to Fab"
which follows celebrity stylist Becca Alexis as she takes everyday women
from average to fabulous in just five minutes. CoverGirl is a long-term
advertising sponsor of "5 Minutes to Fab," using the popular video
series to promote product lines such as its Blast Flipstick.
Honda also leveraged HelloBeautiful's "5 Minutes to Fab" to create
awareness for the Honda CRV among fashion-forward Black women. To target
the same audience, Interactive One created a weekly video series for the
automaker titled "Financial Freedom," which featured four female
entrepreneurs sharing advice on how to make sound financial decisions.
Within the Style & Beauty section of HelloBeautiful, Interactive One
created the custom video series "Get the Glow" for Ambi. Realizing a
need for more information on African-American skincare, industry expert
and aesthetician Seven Brown addressed Black women's skincare challenges
and concerns by providing tips on how to properly care for the skin, as
well as reviews and recommendations of Ambi products.
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the TheUrbanDaily team their unique take on sports, entertainment,
women, local style and more. The spirited video series offers Gillette
an authentic connection to the Black male audience.
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Drugfield Pharmaceuticals Limited will continue to make provision of high quality medicines for Nigerians its top priority, says Pharm. Olakunle Ekundayo, the group managing director of the company.
Speaking with Pharmanews in an exclusive interview during a recent distributors’ award ceremony organised by Drugfield and its distribution partner, World Wide Commercial Ventures Limited (WWCVL), and held at the company’s corporate head office in Ota, Ogun State, Pharm. Ekundayo disclosed further that many more quality products would soon be introduced by the company to meet the health needs of Nigerians, adding that Nigerians should continue to be assured that when they buy Drugfield’s products, they are getting high quality products from a sure source.
Pharm. Ekundayo noted that the company is dedicated to helping to provide quality essential medicines needed by Nigerians in order to reduce the nation’s over dependence on foreign imports.
On the reason for organising the distributors function, the Drugfield’s helmsman said it was a sign that the company was evolving, adding that while the company had before now always used sales representatives as its mini distributors, the partnership with WWCVL had made it necessary for it to relate more directly with distributors and wholesalers who are the company’s partners in progress.
He disclosed further that since 2015 when collaboration with WWCVL began on the distribution of the company’s products, Drugfield had adapted its system of relating with the distributors of its products, which was what culminated in the first distributors function organised. He added that more of such functions would be held in the coming years.
The Drugfield boss also praised the management of WWCVL, describing the company as a dependable mega drug distribution company with a great track record, noting that the company was always very quick in getting the products to distributors all over the country and equally very honest in all its dealings with Drugfield.
Pharm. Ekundayo stated further that WWCVL is also very reliable with payments, noting that whenever the company said it was going to pay at the end of 30 days, it never failed to keep its promise. This, he said, had enabled Drugfield to cope better with the current economic challenges facing commerce in the country, as well as helping the company to project and plan for the purchase of materials needed for production.
Pharm. Ekundayo also noted that Drugfield has received important feedback from its interaction with the distributors and will be doing more to create awareness for the company’s products.
Also speaking with Pharmanews at the event, Pharm. Michael Odediran, sales executive director, Drugfield, said that the interaction with the distributors had shown that they were willing and ready to partner with Drugfield to achieve more success for both parties.
Also speaking at the event Pharm. Sola Akande, executive director, marketing said that the parley with the distributors, had also affirmed that they are important partners of the company, adding that the relationship with them (distributors) would be strengthened to ensure the company achieves its goals.
Speaking in the same vein, Pharm. Sesan Babalola, executive director, sales, Drugfield, also praised the distributors for their contributions to the company, adding that having toured the Drugfield factory during the event, they (distributors) had seen firsthand where the quality products of the company were produced, adding that they would now be more confident to market them and tell the end users more about them.
The highlight of the memorable occasion was the presentation of award plaques and gifts to the distributors.


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Foretec Pte. Ltd., an established leader in Local SEO, today announced it is giving away a free Report on its website entitled SEO for Businesses in — Coolsculpting niche. Interested consumers may download it for free by visiting http://www.foretec.com.
Lester Sim, Founder of Foretec Pte. Ltd., said the company decided to release the Report to help businesses grasp their search engine position and possibly device a strategic link building campaign to improve their website's ranking.
"We want to release this free report to help businesses in the fat freezing niche know where their website is currently at. It is important to know their current position so that they can assess what to target and immediately plan an immediate counteraction," said Sim. "The said plan will immediately be implemented and see the results afterwards. This way we can then adjust or improve what needs to be improved. This report will be really helpful especially for businesses in the body sculpting niche."
Some of the topics included in the Report include link building, on page and off-page SEO.
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The future finally arrives: Lexus to unveil a ‘real hoverboard’ in October
Watch out, world. Toyota is heading back to the future. The automaker has hinted that it’s looking into flying cars. Now its Lexus luxury brand has actually built a working model of a hoverboard. That’s right, an actual working hoverboard. It’s real, but not for sale. Yet. Lexus plans to start testing the prototype in Barcelona this summer and is looking forward to a special date coming up that ties in with the “Back to the Future” films. Lexus says it will disclose more information further down the road — specifically on Oct. 21, 2015, the day that Doc, Marty, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, went back to the future.
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The hoverboard is the latest project in the company’s “Amazing in Motion” series of videos, which showcases new technologies Lexus is working on. The technology is already zooming around Toyota’s home country. A Japanese railway company last year set a new world speed record using a magnetic-levitation train. Toyota tipped its hand a year ago that it’s been experimenting with this for cars.


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Bitcoin.com, a global blockchain leader with over 11 mn Bitcoin wallets, has announced an important milestone in its ongoing strategic partnership with Belief, a blockchain-enabled global financial services platform serving clients in 190 countries.
Under the partnership, the Bitcoin.com wallet will now feature an in-app earning experience that enables users to pledge digital assets and receive interest, powered by Cred. Bitcoin.com wallet is a non-custodial crypto wallet containing various assets and resources supported. The integration will allow Bitcoin.com wallet users to easily interact with the CredEarn platform without leaving the Bitcoin.com wallet application.
The announcement of a partnership extension came at a time when crypto is gaining huge traction among mainstream consumers. The U.S. Currency Manager, the federal group responsible for the security of the banking system, recently noted that banks are now allowed to hold cryptocurrencies.
“We are always looking for new and innovative ways to deliver value to the blockchain community. Bitcoin.com is an industry leader, and we’re excited to make it as simple as possible to earn and borrow with your crypto, ”said Dan Schatt, CEO and Co-Founder of Cred.
Bitcoin.com users can use the newly redesigned CredEarn dashboard across desktop and mobile devices. The collaboration will also allow users instant access to daily interest and interest compound payments in the cryptocurrency or stablecoin of their choice. A customer can pledge one asset, but opt to receive interest payments in another asset, enabling customers free of charge to diversify their cryptocurrency portfolio.
“Belief remains at the forefront of lending and lending platforms. Their commitment to solving financial problems is why we are proud to strengthen our partnership. At Bitcoin.com, we strive to offer our customers the highest-tier blockchain services. Through Cred, our customers will continue to benefit from earning interest on their crypto through a secure and licensed financial services platform, ”said Corbin Fraser, Bitcoin.com’s Head of Product.
Founded in 2018, by PayPal financial technology veterans, Cred is a decentralized global lending platform that facilitates open access to credit anywhere and anytime. FinTech’s mission is to harness the power of blockchain to allow everyone to benefit from low-cost credit products.


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About Mozilla Mozilla
has been a pioneer and advocate for the Web for more than 15 years.
has created an Android version of Firefox, but its share is so small it isn't even measurable by Net Applications.
That effort includes a complete review of Mozilla
's practices around data, including the various non-Mozilla
projects that are supported by Mozilla
Mobile and Privacy: Building Trust Through Transparency, Choice and Control' Seminar Mozilla
Chief Privacy Officer Alex Fowler will contribute to a seminar discussing the role of mobile OS in providing privacy choices, the emergence of app privacy regulation and what it means for business, and location analytics and privacy.
Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla
said: "The introduction of the open mobile OS continues the Mozilla
mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web for users and developers.
The Firefox OS for mobile devices is built on Mozilla
's 'Boot to Gecko project' which unlocks many of the current limitations of web development on mobile, allowing HTML5 applications to access the underlying capabilities of a phone, previously only available to native applications," Mozilla
The Collusion add-on is an official Mozilla
product, and was unveiled at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference this week by Mozilla
CEO Gary Kovacs.
A spokesperson for Mozilla
said that the new e-mail client is another milestone in cooperation between hundred's of open source community volunteers across the world and that Thunderbird is the perfect companion to Firefox.
Even so, Zawinski echoed the Mozilla
developers' insistence that Mozilla
's problems are specific to the project, not part and parcel of commercial open source software.
today released Fashion Your Firefox[R], a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their interests and online activities.
13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mozilla
, the mission-based organization dedicated to keeping the power of the Web in people's hands, today announced a partnership with Mindshare North America, the global media agency network that is part of WPP, to provide its clients with new advertising opportunities within Firefox and for participation in the journey of designing a more user-centric approach to digital advertising.


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Tata Aria, one of the most sophisticated cars among Tata cars, is all set to come in to the markets with an automatic transmission gearbox. The company is planning to launch this AT version of Tata Aria, which is expected to come by the end of first quarter or in the second quarter. The Tata Aria AT pictures have been spotted when it was undergoing testing under international standards. This time around, Tata motors will definitely look to make this car a huge success in the Indian markets unlike the previous model, which failed to attract customers. The existing variant of Aria has failed to attract customers because of the wrong time of launch and due to expensive price tag.
It was first launched as a competitor for the most popular Toyota Innova but proved to be a complete failure in the markets. Now it seems to be the right time for this crossover's launch in the markets as the demand crossovers is soaring at its faster pace. Tata Aria is bearing the flagship for Tata Motors in the crossover segment. Automatic transmission gearbox will certainly improve the driving experience and luxury of the car.
According to the company, Innovations and creativity will not go in vain and they will be successful when the right time arrives. Now coming to the Aria AT, it is expected to come with latest and advanced features. However, nothing has been disclosed regarding the Tata Aria AT features or its specifications at the moment. However, some of our sources have managed to get some details about the engine specifications and car's features. According to them, the car will be equipped with a 2.2 liter diesel engine with 2197cc displacement. It can churn out 137.2Bhp of peak power at 4000 Rpm and produce 320Nm of peak torque at 1700-2700Rpm. When it comes to its fuel efficiency, the car will give away a mileage of about 14Kmpl of maximum mileage, which is good.
When it comes to the pricing of this crossover, the new Tata Aria AT price is expected to be around Rs. 15.0 lakh, which will be competitive. There is no doubt that the car will meet all your expectations and fulfills your traveling requirements. The wait for this car might just be about few more months before it arrives in Indian markets. It is coming with huge interior space that provides comfortable seating for about 7 members. It will be good to spend money on this luxurious car as it is coming with the best in class features designed with cutting edge technology.


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According to a post on Twitter's blog, each trend in the top 10 includes multiple related terms to give the most accurate view of the topics people cared about during 2010.
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Just a week after Tapwave offered a sneak peek at its Palm Powered handheld for adult gamers, expected later this year, Sony has announced that it will bring a handheld gaming device to the market as well. However, the Sony PlayStation Portable, or PSP, will not see the light of day until late 2004, according to Sony, providing upstart Tapwave with a one year head start in this lucrative market.
According to an article on CNET's NEWS.COM website, Sony's gaming handheld will contain a screen capable of 3D imaging and utilize a new optical media format capable of storing 1.8 gigabytes of information on a small CD-like disc. Meanwhile, Tapwave's "Helix" device simulates 3D through software, using Fathammer's X-Forge 3D Game Engine, and stores information on Secure Digital media cards, currently available in capacities up to 512 megabytes.
Although Tapwave was unavailable for comment, Brighthand's Steve Bush did question several representatives of both Tapwave and PalmSource about the potential of Sony entering this market at the Tapwave launch last week in San Francisco. Concensus was that Sony would likely not enter this market as it would potentially adversely affect its PlayStation 2 sales.
Althought the Mobile Gaming market will likely be segmented by price -- GameBoy securing the low-end youth market and Tapwave, Nokia (with its N-Gage) and Sony battling for the adult market -- it will be won as much by software (i.e. games) as by hardware, if not moreso. Although Tapwave has aligned itself with several well-known partners, including Activision. Midway, and Infogrames, Sony has a distinct advantage in this area.
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FTC Cracks Down on Fake Health Plans
A coalition of federal agencies has filed charges against three companies said to use deceptive marketing tactics to sell medical discount plans.
The cases were filed against Consumer Health Benefits Association (CHBA), Health Care One LLC, and United States Benefits LLC. In addition to these cases, the FTC and law enforcement agencies in 24 states have filed 54 lawsuits and regulatory actions to curb deceptive practices "to stop the scammers," the Federal Trade Commission said in a statement.
"With so many Americans struggling to deal with the costs of healthcare, these medical discount benefit plans sound appealing because they masquerade as health insurance," says David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "But they are not insurance. They don't offer the benefits of health insurance, and victims don't know they've been ripped off until after they've tried to use the service and paid their bill."
In the first case, CHBA pitched consumers who found the company on the internet saying falsely that they worked with major medical insurers, that the plan was widely accepted by doctors, pharmacies and other health facilities and that it would save consumers up to 85% on medical expenses, according to the FTC statement.
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… is de ander z’n brood. Ik zag deze investeringstip (en blijkbaar is super-speculator George Soros ook investeerder in dit bedrijf):
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp (SWHC): “You feeling lucky today, well are yeh?–punk!” Smith & Wesson is feeling lucky. The company said its sales of hand guns are up 10% for the year and they had a backlog that was up 153% last quarter. (see this article) The uncertainty of the economy and the steady rise of unemployment have prompted a lot of Americans to consider arming themselves. FBI background checks for handgun sales has soared 44% since 2006 and even there is no direct correlation between background checks and sales, one can still logically assume that with more checks there will be more arms sold. Smith & Wesson’s numbers seem to prove this hypothesis. Smith & Wesson also plans on selling its perimeter security business to focus on its core gun manufacturing business. The security business has been losing money mostly due to cutbacks in government spending and so beginning from October, the perimeter security business will be reported as a discontinued operation in the financial results. Shares of Smith & Wesson are trading at their 52 week low of $2.29 down 38% from their 52 week high of $4.20 that was reached last December, […]. With the increased demand and the back-to-basics approach, this stock might just make you feel lucky today.


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The LG G3 Stylus is here to take on the Galaxy Note
LG has officially announced the G3 Stylus ahead of IFA 2014. The new phablet is here to take on Samsung’s successful Galaxy Note series, and it looks almost identical to the flagship G3 — but it’s nowhere near as exciting internally. Those hoping for stellar specs might want to look away now.
The G3 Stylus has a 5.5-inch IPS display, which offers a disappointing qHD (not QHD) resolution of 960×540. It’s powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz and 1GB of RAM, and it has 8GB of internal storage which is expandable via the microSD card slot.
The G3 Stylus has a 13-megapixel camera on its back, a 1.3-megapixel camera on its front, and a 3,000mAh removable battery. It is powered by Android 4.4.2 KitKat and skinned with LG’s latest user interface, which includes features like QuickMemo+, Dual Window, Smart Keyboard, and Knock Code.
Available in black, white, and gold, the G3 Stylus will be shown off at IFA 2014 in Berlin next month, where we expect LG to confirm its price tag and release date.
The G3 Stylus obviously can’t compete with the Galaxy Note when it comes to specifications, but it could be an ideal device for those who want a large smartphone that won’t break the bank. Just don’t let its looks fool you into thinking it’s as good as the original G3.


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Working to recover from a widespread cheating scheme to evade emissions regulations, Volkswagen named the top manager of its Porsche subsidiary as chief executive of the parent company.
Volkswagen said Friday that Matthias Mueller, 62, will replace Martin Winterkorn, 68, who resigned this week as the scandal quickly grew to affect 11 million vehicles worldwide.
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Honda Accord-a well recognized car from a company that's one of the best among the many Japanese doing business here-was the top-selling car in the industry in 1989 through '91 and finished a close second to the Ford Taurus in 1992 and'93.
So it was a bit surprising to hear Isao Suzuki, executive vice president of Honda, say that 1994 is significant for the automaker because it's the first time since 1990 that sales have increased over the previous year, when increased U.S. competition and the appreciation of the yen against the dollar, which forced prices higher, gave domestic vehicles a sales edge.
"Honda and Acura sales are up 8.3 percent this year. Our market share has risen to 8.6 percent-same as Toyota and Lexus. And for the full year we expect to sell more than 775,000 cars (up from 624,000 in calendar 1993), which would be our best year since we sold 803,367 in 1991," Suzuki said.
The outlook for 1995 calendar year is for sales of more than 800,000 units based on the addition of a V-6 engine to the Accord sedan and a mini-van, the Odyssey, to the lineup.
For the long term, Suzuki said he expects Honda's decision this year to move from being a distributor of cars in the U.S. to a primary builder of vehicles in the U.S. will pay long-term benefits.
As for the future, changes coming from Honda include a redesigned Acura NSX sports coupe in January and an unnamed new Acura coupe in the spring that will be built at Honda's Marysville, Ohio, plant that now assembles the Accord. The car now dubbed the NC is a stretch of the Accord.
The restyled NSX and the new Acura coupe will be unveiled at the Detroit auto show in January.
A replacement for the Acura Vigor also is coming out next fall as a 1996 model. Honda did not offer a Vigor for 1995. The 1996 model year will also bring the redesign of the Civic.
In the spring of 1996, there will be a new Acura Legend. Reportedly Accord will be restyled again for the 1998 model year.
V line: Honda is developing a new V-6 engine that will be offered in the NC coupe. That same V-6 eventually will be used in the Accord as well as the Odyssey.
Honda's first Accord V-6 is the 2.7-liter, 170-horsepower version first offered in the original Acura Legend, which now has a 3.2-liter, 210-h.p., V-6. The V-6 is offered in the Accord LX sedan starting at $23,000 and the Accord EX sedan starting at $24,500.
Honda's truckin': Two of the hottest market segments in the industry are sport-utility vehicles and mini-vans and now Honda is represented in both with the Passport and Odyssey.
But Honda isn't content just to have a 20,000-unit-a-year Passport and a 30,000-unit Odyssey, tiny numbers for such big markets. "We've only hit those segments lightly," says Richard Colliver, senior vice president of Honda Motors of America.
Heavy-duty sales: Light-duty trucks accounted for 22 percent of all vehicle sales in 1980, but the forecast is that they'll account for 42 percent of all sales, or about 6.7 million units, in 2000.
"And mini-vans will account for 1.5 million truck sales by 2000, or 10 percent of all sales, which is why we start selling a mini-van in 1995," said Matt Lewis, program manager for Honda's Odyssey.
To stay on top: "Why fix it if it ain't broke? Because we want to protect our No. 1 position in the market," says Keith Takasawa, chief engineer for the Ford Explorer, which has undergone extensive change for 1995.
Explorer first appeared in April 1990 as a 1991 model. Last year it accounted for 300,000 sales and Ford expects nearly a 2 percent increase over that for calendar 1994, he said.
With two plants producing Explorers for 1995-Louisville and St. Louis-Ford said it could build up to 450,000 of them in the coming year, giving it a considerable advantage over the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chevrolet Blazer at 300,000 units each.
Steve Lyons, general marketing manager for Ford division, said sport-utility vehicle sales were a healthy 750,000 units in 1990 but should top 1.1 million for 1994 calender year and reach 1.4 million in 1996.
Young outlook: Ford is trying to cater more to youth in 1995 with the addition of the Explorer Expedition two-door, a sports decor model with 16-inch tires designed for off-road ride and handling.
Ford stopped short of calling it the Explorer GT, officials said, because that designation is reserved for a high-performance model for the open highway not gravel or sand-if and when Ford chooses to do a sport-utility of that ilk. By the way, 5-speed manual transmissions will be standard only on two-door Explorers.
Navajo heave-ho: Ford for the last few years has been building about 18,000 two-door versions annually of the Explorer for Mazda that were sold under the Navajo moniker. Mazda, however, wanted four-doors, which Ford wouldn't supply, so it isn't selling any Navajos for 1995.


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New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut rates by 25 basis points in its policy review meet in April this year, a Deutsche Bank report said Friday.
According to the global financial services major, December CPI at 5.6 percent was in line with expectation and would help RBI to meet its near term target comfortably.
"We expect a 25 bps rate cut in April but in case the global economy tips into a recession, thereby delaying India's growth recovery, and if inflation remains along the glide path as projected by the central bank, then room could open up for further rate cuts in the second half of 2016," Deutsche Bank said in a research note.
The report noted that RBI is likely to meet its near term target of achieving 5.8 percent CPI inflation by early 2016, largely due to the ongoing correction in commodity prices.
But achieving the medium-term target of pushing inflation below 5 percent by early 2017 is going to be an "uphill task" given the various risks from fiscal, food supply, and services sector inflation, which probably will lead RBI to maintain a cautious stance, it said.
"Consequently, we expect only one 25 bps rate cut in 2016 (early April), in our base case scenario," the report said.
It added that "in case the global economy tips into a recession, thereby delaying India's growth recovery, and if inflation remains along the glide path as projected by the central bank, then room could open up for further rate cuts in the second half of this year".
The Reserve Bank may also face pressure to reduce the key lending rate further as industrial production contracted 3.2 percent in November, its sharpest decline in four years.
Besides IIP, the central bank also looks into retail inflation data while firming up its monetary policy stance.
Retail inflation has been rising for five straight months and came in at 5.61 per cent in December.
The RBI's next bi-monthly policy review is on February 2.


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LocalBitcoins, an industry leader in Peer-To-Peer Bitcoin markets recently announced its financial results from 2019. Aside from revenue growth, the company was able to grow its user base after integrating know your customer ( KYC ) and anti-money laundering ( AML ) protocols. Founded in 2012, LocalBitcoins promotes financial inclusion by letting people buy, store, and transfer bitcoin in an efficient manner through human to human interaction.
LocalBitcoins, a world leader in person-to-person Bitcoin trading, recently announced its financial results from 2019. In terms of revenue, LocalBitcoins recorded €26.2 million in 2019, which was +10% higher year over year. Operating income fell slightly ( -6% ), while overall headcount surged +65%. In addition, the company experienced the following metrics:
- 1.46 million new customers transacting on LocalBitcoins platform
- €2.48 billion in trades processed on LocalBitcoins
- 15.6 million trades executed
- Number of active traders approached 913,000
LocalBitcoins CEO, Sebastian Sonntag stated that:
“2019 was an invaluable learning experience for us, as we implemented anti-money laundering and know-your-customer (KYC) regulations. As expected, undesired activity was driven away from the platform and the implementation of KYC itself was a challenging process. Despite these, we were able to deliver growth and excellent earnings.”
Continued Growth Despite Tighter Policies
Many people value crypto because of its core features around financial privacy and decentralization. As regulators continue to crack down on digital asset companies, companies like LocalBitcoins have taken an initiative by implementing know-your-customer ( KYC ) and anti-money laundering ( AML ) protocols to comply with applicable legal requirements. Of the 1.46 million in new LocalBitcoin customers during 2019, a large majority of them value a platform that is operating in a compliant and safe manner. Sebastian Sonntag talks about KYC / AML, and how it has helped their platform evolve. By implementing these procedures, the CEO stated that illicit activities have been reduced, which has ultimately added more trust and security on their platform. The company has placed a lot of emphasis on customer satisfaction as it continues to enter new horizons. Most recently, LocalBitcoins achieved a 4.8/5.0 on TrustPilot from 25,000+ customers.
While focusing on security, safety, and satisfaction in 2019, the positive momentum has rolled into 2020. So far this year, the company is experiencing daily new customer sign ups surging +50% since the beginning of the year. With LocalBitcoins beefing up security and eliminating illicit activity on its platform, the company continues to experience healthy demand as we enter the 2nd half of 2020. It’s worth noting that LocalBitcoins gives users the ability to deal directly with other users. With this being said, customers value security to ensure they are transacting money with the right people. Furthermore, this can explain the growing user base in a more secure environment.
More On LocalBitcoins
As referenced above, LocalBitcoins is a global leader relating to person-to-person bitcoin trading. On the company’s platform, it’s completely different than going to a traditional exchange. The LocalBitcoins platform operates through human to human interaction, meaning users trade directly with another person. Compared to a traditional crypto exchange, the experience on LocalBitcoins is much quicker and customizable. Users from different geographic locations come together and can exchange their local currency to Bitcoin. Escrow services provided by LocalBitcoins protect both buyers and sellers during a given transaction. In a world where 1.7 + billion people are “unbanked,” LocalBitcoins mission is to connect anybody to the internet economy, and fuel prosperity in developing countries.


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Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo are tying the knot on June 1!
The American Idol alumni, who got engaged on the show’s 2012 finale, are putting the finishing touches on their wedding preparations – from the clothes, to the cake, to the guest list – and they’re giving us a sneak peek of it all. Well, almost everything. Diana won’t reveal the wedding dress until she walks down the aisle. Not even a hint!
From now until their wedding, we’ll have exclusive videos of Ace, 32, and Diana, 25, as they count down to their big day.
Day 6: Why We Hired a Wedding Planner
Planning a wedding is hard work; details can fall between the cracks. Or, worse yet, you can forget to pay your vendors.
With busy filming and recording schedules, Ace and Diana decided to give control to a professional who could help their day go off without a hitch – and they couldn’t be happier. Their wedding planner, Renée Strauss, has given them detailed lists of what is finished – and what’s left to do.
“If it weren’t for this, we would be a hot mess right now,” says Diana in the latest video. “If you’re one of those brides who can do it all yourself, God bless you.”


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Tolland, Conn.-based Gerber Garment Technologies last month moved its Los Angeles office to a larger facility. The 12,000-square-foot office is located at 6135 East Washington Blvd. in LA’s apparel district. The office serves as GGT’s West Coast regional office and serves California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Western Canada and Mexico.
Freudenburg Nonwovens Limited Partnership, the Chelmsford, Mass.-based subsidiary of Germany’s Freudenberg & Co., is going ahead with a $10 million expansion of its Durham, N.C., plant. The project will include production facilities for its high-speed thermal bondings nonwovens line, as well as finishing and adhesive printing lines. It is scheduled for completion by the middle of next year.
Better Methods Alexander, Paterson, N.J., has relocated its Florida warehouse to a larger facility to better serve Latin American and Caribbean markets. The new facility is located at 3425 N.W. 112 Street in Miami. BMA has also started a care-label printing service out of the new facility.
Melco Embroidery Systems, Denver, is offering a system that lets users see lifelike representations of a planned embroidered design right on their computer screen “as if they were actually stitch-ed.” The system is called TrueView. When used as part of the Wilcom ES-10 Design Library with TrueView, the system acts as “an electronic sample book containing thousands of designs,” Melco said.
Brother International Corp., the Somerset, N.J.-based subsidiary of Japan’s Brother Corp., last month acquired Miamisburg, Ohio-based MIM Industries. Brother officials said MIM has over the years produced numerous patented sewing applications that were used in Brother sewing machines. N. Uehara will become chief executive officer of the subsidiary June 1. He is currently president of Brother Industries, UK. MIM will retain its name and Miamisburg headquarters. Three hundred fifty new suppliers have requested exhibit space at the Bobbin Show, which will run Sept. 27-30 in Atlanta. A total of 900 companies are expected to exhibit, according to show officials. Attendance is also expected to top last year’s figure of 25,105. Show planners said “a record amount of new technology will be unveiled at the show.” About half of the exhibitors plan to include machines and systems in their displays.
Huntley, Ill.-based Union Special Corp. has introduced a new sewing machine for attaching elastic to ladies’ undergarments. The unit, style 57700 N-12, can be used to attach elastic to the leg openings and waists of panties, half slips and briefs made of light- to medium-weight fabrics.
Attendance was up 25 percent at last month’s Los Angeles International Textiles Show. The show drew buyers from 30 states and several foreign countries; 340 exhibitors had booths.
Rohm Tech, Fitchburg, Mich., has appointed Ted DelDonno to the position of business manager for its polymers division. Rohm Tech’s acrylic polymers are used in the production of nonwovens, textiles and paper. DelDonno was formerly technical manager at Rohm Tech.
Computer-aided design software supplier Polygon Software and Technology relocated its headquarters to a new larger facility in Richmond, Va., last month. The new address is 2323 Westwood Avenue, Richmond.
Automated Textile Systems, Fort Mill, S.C., is marketing a new version of the AK 345 automatic sewing machine in the United States. The machine, from Swedish manufacturer AKAB, adjusts to produce a variety of household textiles, including towels, blankets, flat sheets, pillow cases and tablecloths. The unit can sew labels on products and is equipped with a hemmer. AKAB is actively pushing its products abroad since Sweden has lost much of its textile and clothing manufacturing to low-wage nations.
Offray Ribbon Co., Chester, N.J., has named Linda Wagner woven design director. She succeeds Ann Karas, who has retired. Before joining Offray, Wagner designed children’s wear for Pieces, a New York importer, and Bullfrog knits.
W. Schlafhorst AG & Co., Moenchengladbach, Germany, has named Gregor Gebald sales manager for materials-handling systems. Gebald rejoins Schlafhorst after eight years as joint managing director of Innovatex Materials Handling, GmbH, also of Moenchengladbach. He had worked for Schlaf-horst for 30 years in applications engineering before going to Innovatex.
In other news, Gerber has appointed Gary Freedman sales manager for its CMS product line for the eastern United States and Canada. Formerly vice-president of sales for INA Systems, Freedman will work out of GGT’s Atlanta office. He will report to William Staples, director of sales, North America.


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Whether you are beer connoisseur or a novice to the brewing scene, there is something for everyone during ABQ Beer Week.
“Obviously, it depends on the person, and that’s kind of the joy of ABQ Beer Week is we try to get something for everybody,” said Marne Gaston of Feel Good Festivals, which organizes the event. “Lots of new beers – that’s exciting for most people. If you like beer, then you want to try new beers if you’re into that. Unless you have that one beer that you always drink, and that’s probably not what you’re interested in anyway, but we try to get them thinking outside the box and trying new stuff.”
ABQ Beer Week started Thursday, May 23, and runs through June 2. There are more than 100 events that are part of ABQ Beer Week, with a number of breweries, bars, restaurants and retailers participating.
There will a number of beer pairing dinners that range from fine dining to fun. Marble Brewery’s popular beer and cheese pairing returns. The free tasting will be held at 4 p.m. May 31 at Jubilation Wine & Spirits. Tractor Brewing Co.’s “Donut and Beer Pairing” was a big hit last year and will return this year. Tractor has joined forces with Rebel Donuts to put on the event at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Tractor’s Four Hills location, according to Gaston.
Steel Bender Brewyard will team up with The Artichoke Cafe for a fine-dining beer experience. The four-course beer dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. June 1 at The Artichoke Cafe. It is $65 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Patrons will receive a souvenir glass and can take part in a raffle. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the restaurant at 243-0200.
Many breweries will have special beer releases, including Cantero Brewing Co., one of Albuquerque’s newer breweries. It will release its Tamarind Sour on Monday, May 27. Ex Novo Brewing, which is planning to open in Corrales soon, will have a sampling event today at Jubilation Wine & Spirits and a release party at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 25, at Sister Bar, according to Gaston. Quarter Celtic Brewpub will hold its “Mini Cask-Fest” from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, May 25. Attendees can get four samples of cask beer for $5 or a pint of their favorite style.
For some eclectic fun, head over to “PuttSlope and Putt Putt Competition” with Upslope Brewing Co. at Nob Hill Bar & Grill at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 28. Play some Drag Queen Bingo: Pride Edition at 8 p.m. May 31 at Tractor Brewing Co. Wells Park.
ABQ Beer Week will also include the Blues & Brews festival on Sunday, May 26, at Sandia Resort & Casino.
New this year to ABQ Beer Week is the Farm House Ale Event, presented by Kaktus Brewing Co. on June 1 at Loretto Park in Bernalillo. It will feature country music, a car show, games, music, food and a beer garden, according to Gaston. Tickets are $10 before May 30 and $15 after May 30. For tickets and information, visit farmhousealeevent.com


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The president and a vice-president for CTIA, a lobbying organization for the wireless industry, spoke recently with CNET about why they think the FCC should leave their members alone. The vice-president, Chris Guttman-McCabe, is a lawyer and as such his answers are useless. President Steve Largent, however, actually has a couple of candid moments during the interview.
When Marguerite Reardon at CNET asked the men whether or not wireless carriers should have to warn customers when roaming charges go through the roof, Guttman-McCabe first blames consumers–“It’s not as if [they] don’t already have a lot of information about usage at their fingertips”–and then says it could be technically hard as well as expensive to implement. Largent, however, goes all good cop/bad veep and says:
I don’t know how I want to say this, but I guess you could say that the carriers may not have always been very sensitive to some of these billing issues. But I don’t think they are sitting around hoping customers will run up a $10,000 bill. And often if customers go over some kind of limit, many carriers will alert the customer or call them. I think in general when issues are brought to the carrier community’s attention, they respond.
Okay, most of that was a plea to trust wireless carriers because they’re good guys, but I think it’s interesting to see the president and CEO of CTIA admit that carriers haven’t been “sensitive” to “these billing issues.”
He goes on to argue that if consumers raise enough hell, carriers will change their policies, and thus the system works and the government should stay out.
The journalist points out that actually the carriers only changed early termination fee rules after getting slapped with lawsuits and being threatened with new legislation by Congress and the FTC. Largent says:
There was some public pressure applied from consumer groups. And the industry responded. But there never had to be any new regulation implemented. I think the same could happen with Net neutrality. When there has been public pressure to change something, the industry has reacted.
Read the full interview at CNET.


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Apple is a company that is well known to maintain excellent supply chains for their products, however it looks even they can’t escape the chip shortage problems that is affecting the world now. According to sources in the industry, the company is cutting down the total production by about 10 million units as they are facing shortages for certain components.
Apple is reportedly facing trouble getting components from Broadcom and Texas Instruments. Broadcom is the company that supplies Apple with wireless components, while Texas Instruments is known to supply Apple with components related to the OLED display of the iPhone. Both companies are struggling to manufacture enough chips to supply the high-demand of this year’s iPhone 13 series.
Already, the shipment for the current manufactured supply has been delayed. On Apple’s website, the iPhone 13 Pro models is showing shipping dates in only October, even though the product went on sale in September. For many physical Apple stores, the iPhone 13 series isn’t even being listed for pickup. However, there is hope for Apple to make enough before the November festive season, which is typically Apple’s highest sales period.


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Act 1: March 19. Hobby Lobby owner’s wife receives a message from god telling her their stores should remain open.
Act 2: April 1. Hobby Lobby re-opens dozens of stores in states with strict shelter-in-place orders.
Act 3: April 3. Hobby Lobby to furlough most of its employees, close most operations nationwide.
Bonus Post-Credit-Sequence Flashback: Hobby Lobby founder Steve Green spent millions of dollars on “Dead Sea Scrolls” that turned out to be fakes made from used shoe leather.
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Let’s face it – social media has taken over the world. It has become the most preferred mode of communication not only by individuals, but also celebrities, organisations, and everyone in between.
In fact, managing Facebook and Twitter pages for companies has become a full time job in many parts of the world now; that is how important social media is.
And while half the world has already embraced this change of trend and started riding the new wave many years ago, there are still some companies; even huge multi-national ones that have totally missed the bus, running the show in ancient ways, such as Chinese car manufacturer Chery International.
Now, for a company which has its brand present in numerous parts of the world including Malaysia, you would expect them to have a social media page to interact and communicate with their fans and customers, right? Wrong.
Apparently Chery International had discovered social media just recently, and in conjunction with Valentine’s Day three days ago, the brand decided to show its love towards its fans and customers worldwide by officially launching the Chery International Facebook page, Twitter page, YouTube channel, as well as Instagram profile.
With the help of the wide reach and diverse presentation forms of the four social media channels, Chery said that its entry this time is aimed at effectively advancing the brand’s visibility and influence in the international market from brands and businesses aspects by taking the customer demand as the core.
The company also said that it is determined to establish a highly efficient communication mechanism from the customer point of view and to narrow the distance between the brand and customers in a more direct communication form through social media platforms.
Well, better late than never.


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VIVO Z1X will be launched in india on sep 6, 12:00 Noon.The smartphone's highlights thus far appears to be its triple rear camera setup consisting of 48 megapixel sensor, and a large 4500 mAh battery.
The Storage model of VIVO Z1X comes with a price of Rs 16,990 while the india price of the 6GB RAM & 128 GB storage model of the smartphone is set for Rs.18,990. It comes in two colours - fusion blue and phantom purple. It is available on flipkart and vivo e-store.
Vivo initiated the Z- Series in india some months ago. The first phone launched was the vivo z1 pro. The vivo z1 pro is a great smartphone for the price of Rs 14,990.Vivo is now preparing to soon launch its second z - series smartphone called the vivo z1x.
With the Z- series, vivo is aiming to improve its online sales in the country. The vivo z1 pro was launched with the same aim and now vivo z1 pro will also be launched with the same aim. In the press release the company told that vivo announced the continuation of its partnership with india's leading e- commerce platform flipkart to bring its latest smartphone Z1 under z - series product category.
The z1x is made for customers that are performance oreinted and love playing heavy density games on their phone, the company told.
People of varied political beliefs trying to define expansive speech are dangerous: Zuckerberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the social media platform's refusal to take down content it considers newsworthy "even if it goes against our standards." But while he promoted free expression, limitations were place on coverage of his remarks at Georgetown University.
- Visa, Mastercard waver as FBs Libra faces regulatory heat
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- NASAs new mission is to study the Sun
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- Microsoft blocks 36 types of file extension in Outlook Web
- iPad (2019) price in India starts at Rs. 29,900 for its Wi-Fi 32GB
- Google experiences Indexing Issues
- Apple's iPhone 11 series & Watch Series 5 now available for pre-booking
- Leading player in the battle of Mobile payments is Google
- 5G version of chip available in India with upcoming line up of Huawei smart phones


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- Bitski is an NFT platform that aims to simplify creating, buying, and selling non-fungible tokens.
- The platform closed a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
- Jay-Z and Serena Williams were also investors.
An NFT platform that’s branding itself as the “Shopify for NFTs” raised $19 million in Series A funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Jay-Z.
Bitski is an NFT marketplace that aims to enable brands to easily create and sell non-fungible tokens through its platforms. Its website encourages content creators to “jump in, zero blockchain experience required,” and allows users to purchase digital art with credit cards.
A16z’s Sriram Krishnan said the venture firm led the Series A funding round and he will be joining the Bitski board.
“We have a number of investments focusing on NFTs and the metaverse – from Dapper Labs to OpenSea. It only stands to reason we invest in the infrastructure that makes NFTs accessible,” Krishnan said in a blog post.
Other investors in the funding round include Serena Williams, MrBeast’s Night Media, and Ari Emanuel, Endeavor CEO. Galaxy Digital, Winklevoss Capital, and Coinbase Ventures participated in a $1.81 million seed funding round in November 2019 for Bitski.
The popularity of non-fungible tokens has boomed in 2020, though some warn that a bubble is forming and ready to burst, particularly in the market for NFT art.


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